At Highway Benefits, accessible from https://www.highwaybenefits.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Highway Benefits and how we use it. Highway Benefits provides employers with the unique ability to match their employees’ student loan payments. In order to provide these services Highway Benefits is required to collect and share personal information including but not limited to, first name, last name, e-mail address, phone number, social security number, birth date, mailing address, and student loan account information about enrolled employees. By creating an account, you authorize us to collect, store, and use, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, all such Personal information in order to administer the student loan matching program that your employer is providing. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.
Information you provide directly: We may collect and store any personal information you enter on our website, such first name, last name, e-mail address, phone number, social security number, birth date, mailing address, and student loan account information when you register for an account or through a third-party provider. By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information from other sources: We may obtain information about you from third-parties, such as your employer, your payroll provider, and publicly available sources including social media. If you provide us or a third-party provider through our site with your username and password/pin in order for us to access your student loan account, you authorize us to access, collect, use and share your student loan account information as necessary.
Highway Benefits follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Like any other website, Highway Benefits may use 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information. For more general information on cookies, please read "What Are Cookies" from Cookie Consent.
Highway Benefits uses your information in general to: deliver our service of loan matching as a benefit, manage your account and provide support, send you information about Highway Benefits, customize your dashboard and experience, perform research regarding our products and process, verify your eligibility, comply with legal and other regulatory requirements. We may use your information to contact you about future products that may interest you, in which case there will be clear instructions on “opting-out” of such contact.
If we intend to use your data in any way that is not in this Privacy Policy, we will notify you when the data is collected.
We do not share your information with others except as laid out below: Your Employer: If you are a registered user of Highway Benefits and your employer is participating in a student loan matching program as described in the terms of use, we will provide your employer with relevant information. This information is necessary in order for Highway Benefits to provide our service. In these cases, we will do our best to provide only aggregate information to your employer. By registering as a user, you consent to Highway Benefits disclosing your personal information to your employer. We will do our best to make the information anonymized in some fashion, however, you acknowledge that in some instances data may be de-anonymized for reasons beyond our control. Third-parties: We may share information, including personal information, with third-parties that perform certain services on our behalf. In the case of Highway hiring another business to provide services related to our business we will provide them with the relevant information they need to perform their job and permitted by law. Examples include customer services, payment transfers etc. We may share aggregate information that does not identify you personally with business affiliates in order to better understand our customers and products. We may also use aggregate statistics to describe our product and services to customers, prospective clients, and investors.
If Highway Benefits is a part of a substantial corporate transaction such as a sale, merger, reorganization that includes selling of our assets etc., your personal information may be a part of the transferred assets.When required by law, to respond to an investigative demand or to defend against legal claims. If we believe the disclosure of Personal Information is necessary to investigate or take action in order to protect Highway and its users.
Highway Benefits' Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Highway Benefits does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Only This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Highway Benefits. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
We try our best to take reasonable steps such as using a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to protect your personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Please understand that there is no way to guarantee absolute security of our databases or your information being intercepted while in transmission over the internet.
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.